Myself Quotes

“I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish… You see, it is difficult to get all which I want. And then when I do not succeed I get mad with anger.”
― Simone de Beauvoir

“But I will find new habits, new thoughts, new rules. I will become something else.”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent

“I don’t need anyone else to distract me from myself anymore,
like I always thought I would.”
― Charlotte Eriksson, You're Doing Just Fine

“I visited many places,
Some of them quite
Exotic and far away,
But I always returned to myself.”
― Dejan Stojanovic

“Wherever I go, I meet myself.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, The Shape

“I like to reinvent myself — it’s part of my job.”
― Karl Lagerfeld

“I'm so tired I never want to wake up again. But I've figured out now that it was never them that made me feel that way. It was just me, all along.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Forever

“What do you mean I have to wait for someone's approval?  I'm someone.  I approve.  So I give myself permission to move forward with my full support!”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, and Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

“I recreate myself; that is my only power.”
― Dejan Stojanovic

“When I was your age I knew nothing about the world or my place in it. I figured I'd be someone's wife, then someone's mother. It never occurred to me to be someone myself.”
― Wendy Mass, Every Soul a Star

“I’m learning persistence and the closing of doors, the way the seasons come and go as I keep walking on these roads, back and forth, to find myself in new time zones, new arms with new phrases and new goals. And it hurts to become, hurts to find out about the poverty and gaps, the widow and the leavers. It hurts to accept that it hurts and it hurts to learn how easy it is for people to not need other people. Or how easy it is to need other people but that you can never build a home in someone’s arms because they will let go one day and you must build your own.”
― Charlotte Eriksson, Another Vagabond Lost To Love: Berlin Stories on Leaving & Arriving

“I give myself sometimes admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.”
― Mary Wortley Montagu

“One hand I extend into myself, the other toward others.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, The Shape

“I put myself in the way of things happening, and they happened.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

“I believed, when I entered this convent,
I was escaping from myself, but alas,
poor me, I brought myself with me! ”
― Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz

“While gazing at myself from yourself, I was beautiful.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, The Shape

“May I free myself from the ever-pressing chest and enter the garden of imagination by leisurely hiding brain on hill summits.”
― Suman Pokhrel

“May I free myself from the labyrinth of knowledge.”
― Suman Pokhrel

“Te cansarás primero que yo. Llegaré a donde quieres llegar antes que tú estés allí -dijo el que iba detrás de él-. Me sé de memoria tus intenciones, quién eres y de dónde eres y adónde vas. Llegaré antes que tú llegues.”
― Juan Rulfo, El llano en llamas

“Leggendo non cerchiamo idee nuove, ma pensieri già da noi pensati, che acquistano sulla pagina un suggello di conferma. Ci colpiscono degli altri le parole che risuonano in una zona già nostra – che già viviamo – e facendola vibrare ci permettono di cogliere nuovi spunti dentro di noi.”
― Cesare Pavese, Il mestiere di vivere: Diario 1935-1950

“I can see myself before myself—
A being through dark scenery.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, Circling: 1978-1987

“In most books, the I, or first person, is omitted; in this it will be retained; that, in respect to egotism, is the main difference. We commonly do not remember that it is, after all, always the first person that is speaking. I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well. Unfortunately, I am confined to this theme by the narrowness of my experience. Moreover, I, on my side, require of every writer, first or last, a simple and sincere account of his own life, and not merely what he has heard of other men's lives; some such account as he would send to his kindred from a distant land; for if he has lived sincerely, it must have been in a distant land to me. Perhaps these pages are more particularly addressed to poor students. As for the rest of my readers, they will accept such portions as apply to them. I trust that none will stretch the seams in putting on the coat, for it may do good service to him whom it fits.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

“searching for love ... ; searching for people ... ; searching for things that scare me ... ; finding me !”
― عبد الرحمن محمدين

“When, at last, I ceased to be myself, I came to be.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“But to be what I am, to live what I was meant to live, to want to sound like no one else, to yield the blossoms dictated to my heart: this is what I want - and this surely cannot be arrogance. (Letters on Life)”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

“May be you are gone,but that doesn’t make me come back”
― Munia Khan

“The greatest threat that I need to be rescued from is myself. Everything comes a lot easier after that.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“How on earth will you sneak in?"
"I will not sneak. I will simply walk."
The collar of my cloak had begun to itch against my neck like sandpaper. I ignored it.
Ariadne looked as if she thought she'd misheard me. "What?"
"I've done it before," I said. "Once at a goblin court in Shetland. Last year I walked into a winter fair in Ljosland and made off with two captives. You cannot hope to evade the notice of the courtly fae in their realm; the only option is deception. Pretense."
"And--- who will you pretend to be?" Ariadne said slowly.
"Someone who will not surprise the Folk," I replied. "Myself.”
― Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands

“Before I fall asleep, when I hear my Breath, I can feel the Respect I have for myself.”
― Sino Melo

“As I moved away from people, I got closer/closer to myself. - The Hikikomori Chronicles.”
― Pablito Fernando Emre Polat